Evolution: Where are all the half-evolved fossils?

Question

Millions of people are taught that the fossil record furnishes proof of evolution. But, where are there fossils of half-evolved dinosaurs or other creatures?

(Keep in mind that I am in no way trying to push the belief of God. I am not trying to tell someone to turn to the bible. I am not calling anyone a sinner. I am not doing anything like that in any way. I am simply trying to give people more knowlage on a subject that has mostly been debunked and not very logical)

I posted this in the wrong area by accident. My bad.

No one has given me a good answer so far.
People are using OPINIONS! Not proven facts!!!

Answer 1

Welllll, to be honest, there IS a half-reptile/ half-mammal fossil out there. I forget the name, but I suppose it can be looked up.

Answer 2

Even if there were no fossils at all there is still more than enough evidence from biology and genetics to prove evolution true and to support the theory of evolution.

Enter the fossils. There are plenty of what some call transitional fossils, but beside that, every fossil is a fossil of a transitional species. Every species was a variation on something else and was different than what came after.

You, my dear, are a member of a transitional species.

Evolution is continuing. Humans have changed even in recorded history and what we change into or if we even survive is not yet known because that is the future.

Answer 3

While Darwin predicted that the fossil record would show numerous transitional fossils, even a century and a half later, all we have are a handful of disputable examples.

And they really need to do a better job of explaining “living fossils” (animals and plants that supposedly lived hundreds of millions of years ago that forgot to evolve and look the same as they do today).

And people love to go to www.talkorigins.org, but never get the other side of the story: http://trueorigin.org

Answer 4

There is no FACT that God exists either, and yet you are pushing against what science has already shown.

The bottom line is that science will go as far as their limitations will take them. Then to get more information, scientists must believe in hope, or a leap of faith.

Science can find new discoveries, and change the books accordingly. You find ONE thing wrong with the Bible or Qu'ran historically, and you'll send zillions of creationist theologists into a tailspin.

This is more a shot at written religious doctrines that have been edited constantly, yet people take them as gospel.

Answer 5

We have still yet to see any evidence of one species becoming another. Variations in the same species doesn't equate to evolution. For all we know at this stage is that those variations are preprogrammed in the DNA as possible variations. Mixing of DNA may make a new type of dog, but it is still a dog. So, even if a complex single cell organism managed to spontaneously form with perfect parts one time or even a thousand times, it wouldn't account for the wonderful variety of life here on Earth.

Answer 6

Have you been to a museum or opened a book on the subject (other than the bible)? Or even watched the Discover or History channels? There are many fossils, and we are slowly finding them, along with stages of their evolution. We can date how old one is compared to another and see what has changed (in bone structure) but being that they are fossils, mostly of bone, we don't have soft tissue to examine and compare the small, less perceptible changes. The more fossils that are found, the more we have to compare. But we are trying to compare hundreds of millions or years of fossils in a short period of time. You want answers to everything now, and each question takes lots of $$ to answer, and "god forbid" you take money out of the church collection plate and put it towards science.

Answer 7

There are transitional fossils... The problem is that people will always insist that there must be a transitional fossil in between the transitional fossils...

For example, let's take a fossil A, which evolved into fossil B, which then evolved into fossil C, and so on... The problem is that people will insist that there is a fossil in between A and B, and that if you can't find it, then A didn't evolve into B...

Answer 8

You say you are simply trying to give people more knowledge on the subject of evolution that has mostly been debunked and is not very logical.

How is your asking a question giving people more knowledge?

How is your dismissing evolution as a subject that "has mostly been debunked and not very logical" not a judgment intended by you to push others towards a belief in God?

You are a liar.

Answer 9

Half-evolved. The very use of that term demonstrates your lack of education and knowledge of what exactly paleontologist are saying about the fossil record. Evolution has not been mostly debunked despite what propaganda your favorite creationist web site has to say. Creationism has been debunked as a pseudo-science with no basis in reality.

Get a real education at a real University and come back and try again.

Answer 10

guess what....YOU are a half evolved fossil, my dear. Just because you don't find any fossils of fish/birds or such nonsense, doesn't disprove evolution. We are in a constant state of evolution and transition....it's not sudden, it's gradual and takes millions of years. you want examples of what you may view as "transitional fossils"? how about the raptor fossils found with impressions of feathers? How about giannt amphibians with crocodile like characteristics? How about homo-ergaster? That's as close as you can get to whatever it is you seem to be expecting.

Answer 11

They are called "transitional fossils" and there are literally, thousands of them.
I am providing you with a link, one you will probably ignore because believing that an imaginary sky-pixie created everything with his magic wand one afternoon when he was bored is so much easier to believe. But I'm providing the link anyway just in case there is a small part of you not so completely brainwashed that you are actually able to seek real answers.
Here it is, ignore it as you will;
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/faq-transitional.html

Oh and for the record; "I am simply trying to give people more knowlage on a subject that has mostly been debunked and not very logical." When you are trying to give KNOWLEDGE on a subject, you should at least be able to spell at a 6th grade level. Just so you know...

EDIT, um, the FACTS you so desperately seem to want to avoid are in the LINK I AND OTHERS PROVIDED TO YOU. READ IT! Reading you see, is the cornerstone of science. If you refuse to read it, then you can't learn. See how that works?